The Air Force wants a more in-shape force, but the department’s top leadership has no plans to mandate that time during the duty day be set aside for airmen and Space Force guardians to work out.

“You have to leave those kinds of decisions up to the command teams for their best judgment, I think,” Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier told reporters on Monday.

Lohmeier’s comments were in response to a question about leaders providing duty hours for fitness during a media roundtable with Air Force Secretary Troy Meink at the Air & Space Forces Association’s annual conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

Task & Purpose asked both leaders if the Department of the Air Force’s new “Culture of Fitness” initiative would include a mandate that the duty day include time for individua

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